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Historical Event on 5/26/1931

One hundred miners were trapped beneath a blazing mine. It was thought that there were unlikely to be any survivors in Madras.

Other Historical Dates and Events
2/20/1947British Prime Minister Clement Attlee announced in the House of Commons, London, that Britain will release India before June 1948 and for this purpose Lord Louis Mountbatten was appointed to work as the new Viceroy of India.
10/2/1934Indian Naval Force was established.
8/29/1931Gandhi arrives in London for second Round Table Conference on India.
4/2/1987Indian Standards Institution becomes Bureau of Indian Standards.
4/20/1989R. S. Pathak, Chief Justice of India, elected to the World Court.
1/3/1952India adopted birth control program with aid of U.N. World Health Organization.
5/21/1996M.S. Sushama Dande (Shiv Sena) elected first woman mayor of New Mumbai along with Savitri Patil (Shiv Sena) as Deputy Mayor.
4/16/1848Kandukuri Veeresalingam, Telegu author and social reformer, was born in Andhra Pradesh.
1/9/1976President suspends seven freedoms guaranteed by Article 19 of the Constitution.
3/1/1939Satish Kumar Sareen was born in Rawalpindi (now in Pakistan). He became the Air Chief Marshal.